The intense media interest in the case has also prompted criticism of news outlets for not covering similar cases involving people of color.
has drawn widespread national media attention ever since the 22-year-old — whose body was found near Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park on Sunday — was reported missing by her parents earlier this month, after her 23-year-old fiancé, Brian Laundrie, returned home from a cross-country road trip without her.
In Wyoming, where Petito went missing, at least 710 Indigenous people vanished between 2011 and 2020, . Of those, 466 were Indigenous women. A corresponding study by the University of Wyoming’s Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center found that just 18 percent of Indigenous women who were reported missing received newspaper media coverage.“It’s kind of heart-wrenching, when we look at a white woman who goes missing and is able to get so much immediate attention,” Lynnette Grey Bull, a leading advocate for Wyoming’s missing and murdered Indigenous women,.
Advocates like Grey Bull are trying to use the Petito case to draw attention to cases of missing people of color., a 24-year-old Black geologist who went missing in the desert near Buckeye, Ariz., in June.
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